Psychoban

I wanted to add an update to my previous comment, being as the mystery concerning the Hospital room #4 has been solved. Not only has the mystery been solved, but I am happy to announce that as an old MacSokoban pro, I quickly advanced through all six levels -- and 60 rooms -- of Psychoban within a matter of twelve hours. While some of the rooms were a bit challenging and required some serious thinking and planning, as I mentioned to the developer in a private email message, personally, I didn't find Psychoban quite as challenging as the MacSokoban of the early 1990's that was written by Ingemar Ragnemalm. BTW, I mistakenly stated that Ingemar's version of MacSokoban had 50 levels, which took me at least several weeks to master. I just found a version of his game -- and downloaded it -- and in actuality, while there are indeed 50 original levels, he also includes a number of other modules in the archive, which contain hundreds of additional levels. I had forgotten about these. It was actually all of these extra levels which took me weeks -- maybe even a few months? -- to master, but I eventually did. But concerning Psychoban's Hospital room #4, as it turns out, my confusion was due to the fact that I was looking at Psychoban through the eyes of one who has played many earlier versions of Sokoban on the Mac. A primary difference between those versions, and Psychoban, is that unlike Psychoban, in the earlier versions, you never leave any crates on the floor of the warehouse. Every single crate must be moved to the storage area. This is not the case with Psychoban. You can leave crates on the floor, stuck against walls, trapped in corners, etc., just as long as the required number of crates are pushed onto their target squares. In short, when I looked at the Hospital room #4, I assumed that all four crates had to be pushed onto that single target square that is located on the far left side of the screen. I assumed that when you pushed one crate onto the target square, it would disappear -- or at least something like that -- so that you could proceed to push the other three crates on there as well. However, as I said earlier, because of the floor layout, it is totally impossible to do that, which is why I was stymied, and couldn't understand how the level could possibly be winnable. If you have already played this level of the game -- the Hospital room #4 -- then you will know that once you place that first crate on the target square, the level ends, with three crates still remaining on the floor -- which is so different from the original Sokoban. While some -- not all -- of the graphics in Psychoban are well done -- the silly gore aside -- as I pointed out to the developer, there is definitely some room for improvement insofar as the dialog between the different characters is concerned. While a younger audience might find the dialog amusing, as an older individual, I found it rather silly. However, what bothered me the most was the poor grammar, and the multitude of spelling errors. This really detracts from the game's professional appearance, and conveys the idea that the game was developed by a bunch of young kids. I urge the developers to correct this situation. If you want to see how Sokoban looked sixteen years ago on the Mac, look for Ingemar Ragnemalm's version of MacSokoban on the web. The last released version is 3.0.3, and it requires a PPC machine.